The median advertised pay for a travel Psych (psychiatric) contract in Missouri is $1,917 per week, with the middle half between $1,917 and $1,917. Measured across 5 active travel Psych contracts in Missouri at 4 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
That is 5 percent under the $2,025 national median for travel Psych contracts.
Missouri is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so an active multistate license covers you here. A single-state license from elsewhere does not. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 1 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 3 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 1 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Missouri has the 39th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 30 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 5 percent under. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 2 | $1,917 | $865/mo |
| Cape Girardeau | 1 | $1,917 | $800/mo |
| Kansas City | 1 | $2,284 | $1,220/mo |
| Nevada | 1 | $1,849 | — |
Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.
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